Risk Perception, Culture, and Legal Change

A Comparative Study on Food Safety in the Wake of the Mad Cow Crisis

Matteo Ferrari (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2009
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-7811-3 (ISBN)

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This volume analyses the food safety reforms adopted in Japan, Europe and the USA in the aftermath of the BSE crisis, seeking to explain the divergences in such reforms through the so-called 'cultural perception of risk'.

This study explores the reasons behind the different responses of the legal systems of Europe, Japan and the USA in coping with BSE, one of the major food safety crises in recent years. Making reference to the most recent advances on risk perception that cognitive and social sciences, such as legal anthropology and sociology of law, have experimented with, Risk Perception, Culture, and Legal Change examines the role that culture plays in moulding the process of legal change. Attention is focused on the regulative frameworks implemented to guarantee the safety of the food chain against the BSE menace and on the liability responses sketched to compensate the victims of mad cow disease, showing how both these elements have been influenced by the cultural context within which they are situated.

Dr. Matteo Ferrari is a Post-doctoral Researcher in Comparative Private Law, Department of Juridical Sciences, University of Trento, Italy. He has been visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and at the School of Law, Boston University.

Chapter 1 Risk Perception, Culture, and Legal Change; Chapter 2 The Administrative Regulation of Foodstuffs; Chapter 3 Tort Liability and Food Safety; Chapter 101; Conclusions;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.12.2009
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-7546-7811-3 / 0754678113
ISBN-13	978-0-7546-7811-3 / 9780754678113
Zustand	Neuware